Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard/Radcliffe Democratic Club released a statement last night calling "new federalism" a "fiscal sleight of hand" that plays "a cruel shell game with vital social programs...
...empty. Almost no one shops in the re-developed shopping plazas. And there are no guests in the castle-like Renaissance Center hotel complex, which stands over the Motor City like a gleaming caricature of "urban revitalization." Detroit is not thriving: it resembles nothing so much as an empty shell. And it is empty, too, of hope for the unemployed who line the streets, selling apples and bananas from pushcarts...
...William Drayton, former EPA assistant administrator for planning and management under President Carter, the layoffs are deliberate destruction. He charges: "Knowing that the public will never stand for the repeal of these environmental laws, Reagan is gutting them through the personnel and budgetary back doors. With only the shattered shell of an EPA left, our environmental statutes will be largely meaningless...
...false ceilings, uncovered keys to the original paint job. Researchers used aerial cameras to map the mosaic floors, which were then taken up, moved and cleaned. Piece by numbered piece, all the contents of the building were catalogued and carted away for refinishing, until only the hard-fired brick shell remained. It was reinforced with concrete, and 20,000 new bolts and the dome received a $500,000 bracing system...
Colby fell into a defensive shell for most of the third period, often having to ice the puck to take the pressure off of their goalie. The Crimson skaters continued to swarm the net, but they kept coming up empty...